CRE Fellow earns conference award
The Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) was well represented at the 2013 Primary Health Care Research Conference held mid-July in Sydney, with one of the CRE Fellows rewarded for her presentation.
There were eight presentations made by members of the CRE, including School of Rural Health staff members Matthew McGrail, Bernadette Ward, Deb Russell, and Lisa Lavey. Links to the PHCRIS presentations, webcast and abstracts are now available.
Dr Susan Thomas, a CRE Postdoctoral Fellow from the Alice Springs node was awarded the AJPH Prize for Best Paper/Symposium at the PHC Research Conference, based on the CRE work on ‘Access to core primary health care services in rural and remote Australia.’ Other CRE authors on this paper included Professor John Wakerman and Emeritus Professor John Humphreys.
John and Matthew McGrail have been invited by Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek to join a newly established Rural Classification Technical Working Group to progress one of the key recommendations from the Review of Australian Government Health Workforce Programs (the Mason Review).
The group’s task is to examine a modified rural classification that would overcome anomalies, and to consider the modified Monash University School of Rural Health model as one way forward. The full report can be accessed online.
In other CRE news, a week-long research writing workshop was held in Broken Hill. Five early care researchers and two CIs from the CRE (John Humphreys and David Lyle) provided one-on-one supervision and mentorship and participated in the important research activity being undertaken by Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health researchers.
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